Always thought women were the stronger sex? Okay, I admit it, me too.
But I am inclined to be a little skeptical when someone pimping their book cites ancillary evidence rather than studies so even if the logic is good I tend to maintain a healthy disbelief.
Ryuichi Kaneko and Dr. Kunio Kitamura, two of the co-authors of "Sex no Subete ga Wakaru Hon (Everything You Need to Know About Sex)" write in the Mainichi Daily News:
When an orgasm has been achieved through sex, you can measure theta waves. These are also said to cause the "running high" feeling of euphoria experienced sometimes by marathon runners. If theta waves are taken as a criterion, the entire brain emits theta waves when women reach an orgasm that are close on 10 times stronger than when men climax. So, if theta waves are an indication of an orgasm's strength, then women experience an orgasm that is physically impossible for men to go through. Putting it a little crudely, if the intensity of a woman's orgasm was played through a man's brain, there's a danger that the shock to his system would kill him. That risk makes it impossible to experiment on a man at the moment. And men can never become women.
That's right, people - the theta waves for women are 10X what they are for men. This explains why some women have had actual vaginal explosions when dating scientists - there is only so much pleasure even women can sustain.
But let's examine this theta waves business. It's accepted that delta and theta activity in the autonomic nervous system will increase during pleasurable events but because it's sex, and sex is difficult to map subjectively, I don't want to just assume cause and effect. I decided to go off the map and read up on Kundalini, which Hindus say is the coiled up energy at the base of the spine in the root Chakra.
Gopi Krishna says this Kundalini is terrific stuff and accounts for almost everything.
In Kundalini And Sex they write:
According to a principle called reciprocal innervation, an extremely high activation of the frontal hypothalamus and thus of the parasympathetic system, will create an overflow of energy activating the posterior hypothalamus which stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. This will make the energy rise to higher centers and this process is accompanied by very fast activity in the EEG (beta and gamma wave frequencies up to at least 42Hz).
That's right. You have sex at DC. It fell on, naturally, the Japanese to introduce a whole slew of products that use electricity to impact these waves in a direct fashion. The links are not safe for work so I don't include any them here. I even found an article discussing theta waves by Robert Anton Wilson, famous for co-authoring The Illuminatus Trilogy. What I could not find was a study showing any kind of direct correlation; namely, something showing anything beyond theta wave increase being a by-product. If one is out there, I am sure one of the experts at Scientific Blogging will let me know. So at least given current studies it's scientifically unproven that a female orgasm would kill men. Yes, men are wussies in lots of ways, but we can handle sex.
In the meantime, women can continue to have those spectacular theta-driven orgasms and I can continue to write about them.
Because every woman wants a man writing this article about her orgasms.
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January 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
|(beta and gamma wave frequencies up to at least 42Hz).
|That’s right. You have sex at DC.
lol, you must have a long wavelength.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
[...] So I decided to do some investigating. As most of you are aware, I am something of an expert on female orgasms, and not just because my intellect and humor are the causes of more web-based rubouts than Brad Pitt and George Clooney combined. It’s also because I do the research. You’ll recall I wrote an article on whether the Theta waves in female orgasms would kill men and I even reverse engineered the female orgasm including how a calibrated vaginal stimulator works, for those of you unlucky enough to have never dated a scientist. [...]
March 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Fuck off!
April 13th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I thought it was interesting and quite funny to find this site and article …. my sucspicion/experience is however that it is possible for Men to attain to those states of consciousness/frequencies without leaving the body … Practices of meditation and self inquiry, breaking down the energetic contractions of the personality have allowed me, as a mere male, to become far more intuitive and open (gernerally considered femnine traits).. I also suspect a leap in the actual computational capacity and speed of my the mind (it is far more relaxed, essentially de-fragged) .. And in recent years as I have focussed more intently on these practices, my orgasm’s have become far more powerful and intense, some are almost enlightenment experiences… makes for great howling Sex for all concerned..
Cheers
April 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
This is scientific evidence for what we experience in real life.
RamTsam
July 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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September 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
the artical on female orgasms being able to kill a man have been pretty much rejected by most scientists its very very very weak firstly there is weak corelation between how theta waves affect orgasm other than they increase at peak of arosal it may be higher in women but from CT scans male and femal brain activity during orgasm is significantly different with men having more brain activity. also claiming that it could kil a man when it hasnt even been tested and killed a man is very farfetched. on top of this the reaserch into this is very minimal under gone on only a very few people with limited types of sexual stimulation. all in all its a load of hype but very interesting to study will be good to see any further results from other testing and if that level of theta energy would kill a man in practice.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Has not killed me yet and adore the research we are doing.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
This entire study is nothing but pornography. The Holy Bible does not talk about such filth, and I for one do not beleive that “female orgasmisms” even exist! A woman’s job is to worship her Christian Huisband as if he were Jesus Christ Himself, bake pies, keep the house clean, and make soldiers for Christ. All this scientific mumbo jumbo is nothing but lies designed by monkey worshiping atheists.
All you need is the Holy KJV 1611 Bible. Shout Glory!
December 30th, 2008 at 8:08 am
[...] for cussing out a general. But in my obit, I want it to say I bravely gave my life volunteering for this experiment. (”… if the intensity of a woman’s orgasm was played through a man’s brain, [...]